Patrick's writings are regularly published in various tax law publications and he is a frequent speaker at seminars and universities. He holds the position of a teacher (Lehrbeauftragter) for tax law at the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen.

Patrick's writings are regularly published in various tax law publications and he is a frequent speaker at seminars and universities. He holds the position of a teacher (Lehrbeauftragter) for tax law at the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen.

Selected Significant Matters

Patrick's significant matters include advising:

Rockwood Holdings Inc. in the $1.325 billion sale of its titanium dioxide pigments and four other non-strategic businesses to Huntsman Corporation

Rockwood Holdings Inc, on its $ 1.98 billion sale of CeramTec to Cinven

Rockwood Holdings Inc. in the $ 635 million sale of its rheology business to ALTANA Group

Palamon Capital Partners in the sale of its majority stake in Germany’s Loyalty Partner to American Express

TARTECH eco industries AG on the formation and financing of a joint venture

Velcon Filters on its acquisition of Warner Lewis GmbH

Sachtleben on its acquisition of the titanium dioxide business of crenox GmbH

Raben on the acquisition of the road business of Wincanton

Raben on corporate tax matters

Founder of RHM clinics in the sale to Waterland Private Equity

State of North-Rhine Westphalia on the €3.5 billion sale of Landesentwicklungsgesellschaft Nordrhein-Westfalen

A diagnostic group (listed on Frankfurt stock Exchange, included in DAX 30 stock index) on various corporate matters

A chemical group (listed on NYSE included in Fortune 500 index) on corporate tax matters

LEG Stadtentwicklung on various internal reorganizations and corporate tax matters

Argantis on the acquisition of WIS group

Argantis on corporate tax matters in relation to its investment in WIS-Group

3i on the acquisition of Scandlines A/S

3i / Labco on the acquisition of Aesculabor-Karlsruhe GmbH

Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners in connection with the leveraged recapitalization of a German software company

Commerzbank in connection with the refinancing and restructuring of Schaeffler group

State of North-Rhine Westphalia on the sale of Landesentwicklungsgesellschaft (LEG)

The syndicate banks led by Commerzbank and Morgan Stanley on the €460 million rights issue of M-DAX listed RHÖN-KLINIKUM AG

YOC AG on its Prime Standard listing

A bidder on the auction sale of Axtone S.A.

Fortress on several acquisitions, including the acquisition and refinancing of publicly listed Grundstücks- und Baugesellschaft AG Heidenheim

Fortress funds on ongoing tax matters

Palamon on the sale of Movie Park Germany

A multinational industrial group on the reorganization of its German sales & marketing organization

Prior Experience

Prior to joining Willkie, Patrick was a tax partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he served in the international tax department in New York (1999-2004) and the M&A tax department in Frankfurt (2004-2007).